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Stella Gibbons Quote: “Persons of Aunt Ada’s temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves!”

51. “Persons of Aunt Ada’s temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves!”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.”

52. “You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.”

53. “She is a character in a novel who reads the other characters as characters and rewrites them as people.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.”

54. “Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “Flora was pleasantly surprised to hear this, and for a second wondered if the women novelists had been misinformed about confinements? But no: she recollected that they usually left themselves a loophole by occasionally creating a primitive woman, a creature who was as close to the earth as a bloomy greengage and rather like one to look at and talk to, and this greengage creature never had any bother with her confinements, but just took them in her stride, as it were.”

55. “Flora was pleasantly surprised to hear this, and for a second wondered if the women novelists had been misinformed about confinements? But no: she recollected that they usually left themselves a loophole by occasionally creating a primitive woman, a creature who was as close to the earth as a bloomy greengage and rather like one to look at and talk to, and this greengage creature never had any bother with her confinements, but just took them in her stride, as it were.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “He came over to her with the lounging grace of a panther, and leaned against the mantelpiece.”

56. “He came over to her with the lounging grace of a panther, and leaned against the mantelpiece.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “They were what the Americans, bless them! call dumb.”

57. “They were what the Americans, bless them! call dumb.”

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Stella Gibbons Quote: “She detested rows and scenes, but enjoyed quietly pitting her cool will against opposition. It amused her; and when she was defeated, she withdrew in good order and lost interest in the campaign. She had little or no sporting spirit. Bloody battles to the death bored her, nor did she like other people to win.”

58. “She detested rows and scenes, but enjoyed quietly pitting her cool will against opposition. It amused her; and when she was defeated, she withdrew in good order and lost interest in the campaign. She had little or no sporting spirit. Bloody battles to the death bored her, nor did she like other people to win.”

— Stella Gibbons

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